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Many options to get creative here.  

The exit strategy must make sense.Consider the exit strategy and implore the techniques here to ensure your exit strategy is a viable one.

Yes it seems the traditional investing approach works best for me, but as I grow I will navigate more comprehensive and creative investing strategies.   

Ok, I'm new to Flips but I've been told that with a little creativity, anything is possible!

Moral of the story.....be willing to be creative in your approach to deals!

How are you able to touch base with them on a weekly basis to ensure that they did their due diligence, logged in their time and sent over the things that you needed from them?

If you get no response after a month or two, you could get creative and offer something like selling an option to them for making the loan.

Look If your creative and assertive there’s a million ways to get the tenant and his mutt out of the building without directly having anything to do with Fido or his certifications!

You will generally not be given an account to pull credit without an office and often times proper protections in place to ensure that data is kept secure.